Space Cowboy Online

Half a century has passed since the humans arrived on the Phillon planet. The Deca and Vatallus, racial factions which were at an uneasy peace during the colonization of Phillon, parted ways, moving their settlements to opposing hemispheres of the planet.

As a result, the Artum project, the original mission which involved acquiring energy from the planet, had stalled. Both factions were forced to find convenient nearby energy sources, wreaking hacov on the environment in the process. The continually degenerating relations between Deca and Vatallus has put both sides into a cold war for resources.

A small handful of citizens made a huge fortune by monopolizing these resources before anyone else. To protect their empires, they ultimately pumped a large amount of their wealth into national defense. Munitions companies, too, made massive profits from all this funding coming in, they in turn funded their smaller business with this enormous capital. The resulting government was heavily influenced by by the desire and greed of the tycoons of this massive industry. This brought about an arms race which even managed to split the Decans of the Eastern continent into a smaller group of sub-factions. The munitions monopoly eventually settled into their own city, Bark City.

This upset many of Deca’s other influential leaders who, along with many of the pilots who were part of the first settlement project, did not want their blood to be spilled for the sake of this industry.

A number of Decans staged uprisings, and they began to create quite a following. The munitions bigwigs stepped in behind the shadows, damaging the reputations of the leaders of this resistance, labeling them as traitors. These Decans escaped the city’s sphere of influence. Their words of peace and environmental moderation were forgotten, and eventually ignored, and as a result, Bark City abruptly fell into ruin, with 80% of its population being decimated by an unidentified disaster. The people assumed that this was caused by the native Phillon race, or the Shrines who have also settled here. This led them to concentrate more of their resources on national defense.

A few people presumed that the destruction of Bark City was caused by the competition amongst the munitions companies. Many of them were considering to unite with Deca once more, while others were considering uniting with Vatallus. Perhaps these others were looking to expand their markets.

Following this, there was much speculation, protesting, and bloodshed among the Decans. Many of these people moved to the Redline district to expand their own influence. They built bases along both Redline and Starlite Valley, and located their main city in Redline. It became a New Bark City of sorts, although not in name. Bygeniou was humiliated by this, with its citizens worried that this new power could strike against them with its skilled pilots and wide array of munitions resources at any time.

Bygeniou City staged a preemptive attack against the new “rebel” (as they were called) forces, but too many Decans had strong feelings for their kin, many whom they feel to be the great heroes of Deca. Ultimately, this war went tediously back and forth without any gains.
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